1701 – Operations in the Low Countries – Anglo-Dutch Fleet August
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Description
By 11 August 1701, a large Anglo-Dutch fleet was assembled at Spithead.
Admiral Sir Georges Rook assisted by:
- Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas
- Counter-Admiral Sir John Munden
- Admiral Sir Clovs Shovel
- Vice-Admiral Sir John Benbow
The fleet consisted of:
- 15 unidentified Dutch ships of the line
- Barfleur (90)
- Triumph (90)
- Boyne (80)
- Chichester (80)
- Torbay (80)
- Newark (80)
- Ranelagh (80)
- Shrewsbury (80)
- Royal Oak (74)
- Bedford (70)
- Berwick (70)
- Bonaventure (70)
- Bredah (70)
- Eagle (70)
- Essex (70)
- Kent (70)
- Resolution (70)
- Revenge (70)
- Stirling Castle (70)
- Swiftsure (64)
- Yarmouth (70)
- Defiance (66)
- Monmouth (64)
- Canterbury (60)
- Dreadnought (60)
- Dunkirk (60)
- Exeter (60)
- Gloucester (60)
- Kingston (60)
- Medway (60)
- Montague (60)
- Pembroke (60)
- Windsor (60)
- Greenwich (54)
- Dover (50)
- Bristol (50)
- Chatham (50)
- Colchester (50)
- Coventry (50)
- Deptford (50)
- Dragon (50)
- Hampshire (50)
- Oxford (50)
- Pendennis (50)
- Romney (50)
- Ruby (50)
- Weymouth (50)
- Winchester (50)
- Lynn (32)
- unidentified frigate (32)
- unidentified frigate (24)
- 2 unidentified brigantines
- 3 unidentified fireships
- Dunwich (fireship)
- Lightning (fireship)
- Sorling (fireship)
- Phoenix (fireship)
- Yolebay (fireship)
- Hunter (fireship)
- 1 unidentified yacht
- 2 unidentified bomb ketches
References
Vault, François Eugène de, and Pelet: Mémoires militaires relatifs à la Succession d'Espagne sous Louis XIV, Vol. 1 p. 468-469
